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L. K. JOHNSON.

TYPE DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS. N0.,477,009. Patented June 14, 1892.

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L. K. JOHNSON. TYPE, DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

No. 477,009. Patented June 14, 189:2.

@QQKWM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS K. J OIINSON, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,009, dated June 14, 1892.

Application filed May 2, 1891. Serial No. 391,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: plate or floor b of the cup is inclined at a 50 Be it known that I, LOUIS K. JOHNSON, a suitable angle, sutiicient to insure the gentle citizen of the United States, residing in the descent of the types when dropped thereon city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and toward the mouth of the conduit O. The

State of New York,havc invented certain new receiving-plate is preferably rectangular in and useful Improvements in Type-Distributshape, although not necessarily so, and inin g Apparatus, of which the following is a declosed on two sides by the Walls or flanges b scription suflicient to enable others skilled in Z). It is of greater width transversely than the art to which the invention appertains to the length of the types and its lower edge is IO make and use the same preferably substantially horizontal.

My improvements relate to the class of ap- The broad side Walls 0 c of the conduit O paratus in which the types are distributed are separated only a su fficient distance to by hand into receivers or cups by which they accommodate the thickness of the types be are conducted in prescribed positions into tween them, and as thefront wall 0 extends I 5 type-containing channels for use in the setupward above the lower edge I) of the receivting case or apparatus. ing-plate B it will be seen that the types will The object of my invention is to insure the thus be compelled to enter the mouth 0 edgedescent of the types upon their narrow sides Wise and substantially parallel in position. to and their introduction into the containingthe said lower edge I).

20 channels feet first. In falling through the channel 0 the bodies The invention consistsin a receiver having of the type encounter the converging side an inclined receiving-surface of greater wall 0 which may be either curved or :in width than the length of thetype, combined clined and by which they are gradually with a conduit extending from the lower edge turned as they descend until they leave the z 5 of said receiving plate or surface at an angle bottom 0 of the conduit feet first. The conthereto, the conduit being so formed that the verging side wall 0 is arranged upon the side types can only enter and descend edge first of the conduit 0, corresponding to that side and havingaconvergingsurface which graduof the receiving-plate B, toward which the ally turns the types so that they finally enter heads of the types are ordinarily and natur- 0 the type-containing channels feet first. By ally dropped during hand distribution, so

this means the types are all deposited in their that it will be seen that my improved recontainirig-channels in prescribed relation to ceiver affords a positive means of arranging each other, since in distribution by hand the the types in the channels all in the same potypes are always thrown or dropped from sition with relation to each other.

35 the fingers with their heads in one direction, What I claim as my invention, and desire corresponding in my improved receiver to the to secure by Letters Patent, is-

. side of the conduit on which the converging In type distributing apparatus substansurface is situated. tially such as described, a type-receiver con- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is sisting of a wide inclined receiving-plate and 40 a plan of a portion of a distributing apparaa converging type-conduit arranged at an obtus, illustrating diagrammatically a practical tuse angle thereto, the lower edge of said reutilization of my improved form of receiver. ceiving-plate at its juncture with the conduit Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a single receiver; being substantially horizontal, for the pur- Fig. 3, a vertical section upon plane of line pose and substantially in the manner de- 5 a: as, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top View of the rescribed.

ceiver; Fig. 5, a vertical section upon plane LOUIS K. JOHNSON. of line 3 3/, Fig. 4-. Witnesses:

The receiver A consists of the receiver or D. W. GARDNER, cup B and the conduit C. The receiving GEORGE \VILLIAM MIATT. 

